STILL TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF 2010? SO IS 3D WORLD EDITOR
KRIS SWALES, BUT HERE IS WHAT HE’S GLEANED FROM THE
YEAR WE HAD TO HAVE.

T

he hardeﬆ thing about condensing
a whole year’s worth of escapades –
musical or otherwise – into a page
of prose is knowing where to ﬆart.
We need to talk? It’s been the beﬆ of times
and the worﬆ of times? How about that photo
of Hayley Williams/Joel Monaghan/Nick
Riewoldt? Got any pingers?
Well no, it doesn’t seem like anybody does
act ually. A Current Aﬀair are now railing
againﬆ the scourge of meow meow, the News
publications of the world are warning againﬆ
the dangers of i-Dosing and the elect ronic
dance music and hip hop liﬆeners of Auﬆ ralia
are too busy losing their shit at clubs and
feﬆ ivals to care. Or are they?
By all means they should be given the plethora
of ﬁne music – particularly in the form of artiﬆ
albums – which have seen the light of day in
2010, but that’s not necessarily the case. Times
are tough in clubland, no queﬆ ion. Turn-outs
at club nights used to be as predictable as the
results of cricket games involving Pakiﬆan, but
now you’re juﬆ as likely to see tumbleweeds
rolling through the room that was ram-jammed
the night before and with no discernible pattern
behind it all. Punters are certainly crying out
for a diﬀerent, intimate, “special” clubbing
experience, and a patient “if you build it, they
will come” mentality is needed by promoters
and venues rather than quick-ﬁ x band-aid
solutions involving words like “Top 40”, “mashup” and “Promoter DJs”.
Politicians of a Labor disposition may
have trumpeted verbatim that Auﬆ ralia
largely avoided the impact of 2008’s Global
Financial Crisis (they obviously haven’t had
a close look at my bank balance of late, but I
digress…), but young people are ﬆ ruggling and
something’s got to give. And so predict ions
of a consolidation in the dance music feﬆ ival
playing ﬁeld ﬁnally came to pass. While it
seemed to be business as usual for some of
the major players, some new entrants into the
market found that “if you build it, it will come”

really does only apply to baseball diamonds in Hollywood corn ﬁelds, other ﬆaples saw their crowd
numbers recede after years of growth, We Love Sounds and its subsidiaries have moﬆ likely gone to
that great portaloo in the sky and, in the case of Sydney’s Homebake and Days Like Th is, the white
ﬂag was temporarily hoiﬆed as the respect ive promoters wisely decided their brand was better oﬀ
taking a holiday then delivering below its potential.
But it’s all about the music, right? Of course it is. And the depth, scope and ambition of music
covered in 3D World in 2010 has rarely been as inspiring in the 15 years (albeit somewhat hazy ones)
since my ﬁ rﬆ Summer Of Love. Icons in the making like Kanye Weﬆ, LCD Soundsyﬆem and
Flying Lotus continued to fulﬁ ll their promise and live up to the hype, while unknowns like Mount
Kimbie, Janelle Monáe and Darkﬆar came from nowhere to deliver long-players no one would
have anticipated 12 months earlier. And the 90s behemoths continued proving there’s life left in
the old legs, The Chemical Brothers moﬆ successfully while the jury is ﬆ ill out on Underworld and
Faithless (at leaﬆ as ﬆ udio entities). Groove Armada called it a day, Sasha and Digweed continued
to reinvent themselves, The Prodigy deﬆ royed feﬆ ivals once again and Orbital showed that they
probably should have taken over the world back in the day. As for the future of the DJ Mix CD?
We discussed that at length in these pages many months ago, but the diﬆ inct lack of compilations
making it into the Writers’ Polls you’re about to read is a worrying trend.
But the biggeﬆ event in the world of 3D World this year has been internal – and kinda external
as well. We’ve gone glossy, switched from tabloid to a more user-friendly news ﬆ and ﬆ yle, added
content far beyond mere beats and rhymes (and indeed from beyond Auﬆ ralian shores) and
extended our reach into Victoria and Queensland.
And we’re juﬆ getting ﬆarted. So settle back, digeﬆ what the writers of 3D World made of the
myﬆerious beaﬆ that was 2010 and we’ll see you in 2011 – I’ll bring the digital camera if you bring
the meow.
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JANUARY.

t’s often bandied about that The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band and Nirvana’s Nevermind are the only two albums of
the “rock‘n’roll” age to put a full ﬆop on their respect ive musical
eras and change the game entirely. Juﬆ a month after its release
it’s perhaps too early to call whether Kanye Weﬆ’s My Beautiful Dark
Twiﬆed Fantasy will inspire a whole new generation of musicians to selfrighteously invade ﬆages at awards ceremonies, open a Twitter account
for ﬆ ream-of-consciousness ramblings and spend a year of their lives
crafting some of the moﬆ progressive, self-confessional hip hop jams
ever made, but one thing is certain – not since Radiohead’s OK Computer
in 1997, or at a ﬆ retch its ﬆ ill myﬆ ifying 2000 successor Kid A, have so
many overwhelmingly fawning column inches been dedicated to one body
of work.
“This ﬆ uﬀ really is Picasso-like, fulﬁ lling the Cubiﬆ mandate of
rearranging form, texture, color and space to suggeﬆ new ways of viewing
things,” Los Angeles Times’ Ann Powers gushed. Pitchfork’s Ryan Dombal
called it “a blaﬆ of surreal pop excess that few artiﬆs are capable of
creating, or even willing to attempt” on the way to handing out the hipﬆer
portal’s ﬁrﬆ 10/10 review for a new release since Wilco’s Yankee Hotel
Foxtrot in 2002. Even 3D World ’s own Cyclone got in on the act, declaring
“Weﬆ articulates an exiﬆentialiﬆ hip hop. Obama’s “jackass”, and
Dubya’s nemesis, authors a meta-commentary – he’s a hip hop Borges.” US
Presidents and obscure Argentinean writers aside, what Weﬆ was able to
do was combine widescreen ambition with pop accessibility, call in a topheavy gueﬆ caﬆ of producers and voices which never feels over-ﬆ uﬀed and
throw it all at a wall ﬆ uck together with glue labeled “Important”.

“Could we get much higher?” coos Yes frontman Jon Anderson (sampled
from Mike Oldﬁeld’s In High Places) on opener Dark Fantasy’s hook,
and over the ensuing 68-plus minutes the sky is, indeed, the limit.
Weﬆ’s choice of samples aren’t juﬆ there to serve the songs (which they
do superbly) but also appear to signpoﬆ where he’s positioning himself
as an artiﬆ – swiping ideas from iconoclaﬆs like King Crimson, Gil
Scott-Heron and Richard James (aka Aphex Twin) can’t juﬆ be pure
coincidence, nor can recontextualising the vocal hook from Black
Sabbath’s paranoia-heavy Iron Man into a refrain of “No more drugs for me,
pussy and religion is all I need ” on Hell Of A Life.
But lofty goals and weighty themes would count for nothing if the songs
weren’t up to scratch, and My Beautiful Dark Twiﬆed Fantasy delivers
at every turn. Nicki Minaj ﬆeals not juﬆ the show but the entire album
with her elect rifying ﬆar maker minute on Monﬆer (no mean feat given
Jay-Z and Rick Ross also unleash hell on the same cut), Rihanna’s
triumphant chorus on All Of The Lights (that’s Elton John you’ll hear
tinkling the ivories) is the lighter/mobile phone-waving Empire State Of
Mind of 2010, Weﬆ alongside Swizz Beatz, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Prynce Cy
Hi and The RZA comprise one of hip hop’s moﬆ formidable posses ever
on So Appalled – hell, even Chris Rock and Salma Kenas’ two-and-a-half
minute phone conversation about, umm, pussy reupholﬆering at the tailend of Blame Game sounds like genius.
But it’s Kanye Weﬆ conduct ing this grand aﬀair and My Beautiful
Dark Twiﬆed Fantasy certainly is a grand ﬆatement. Only time will
tell whether it’s a full ﬆop on popular music, but as it ﬆands it’s one
impressive exclamation mark.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS
2.LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
This Is
I Happening (DFA/EMI)
“A song
son like I Can Change [is] not about thinking
you ca
can change, it’s more about being pathetic, being
sung fr
from the position of what you do and how you
act when
wh you feel desperate.” James Murphy (LCD
Soundsyﬆ
em), 3D World #1042.
Sound
that falls well short of hipﬆer
“...oozes with timely modernism
mode
bandwagon
b
d
jjumping.”
i ” Chris
Ch Yates, 3D World #1011.

3.MO
3.MOUNT
KIMBIE
Crooks And Lovers
Croo

(Hotflush Recordings/Inertia)
unfamiliar with the pair’s sound, it’s
“For those
th
about the texture and ambience. Far from the
all abo
precise and clinical high-impact assault of
cold, p
dubﬆeep, the tracks across this album have much
more in common with Boards
Of Canada, Fennesz, Four Tet or Burial.”
Bo
Brad Swob,
Swob 3D Worldd #1032.
#10

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NAT

TRACK OF
THE YEAR
4.FLYING
Y
LOTUS

Cosmogramma
Cosm

(Warp Records/Inertia)
“I was honeﬆ at a point
where it would have been
easy and very tempting
very ea
for me to juﬆ bullshit
like that album but the
people. I’m glad people lik
reason I’m moﬆ proud of it is because I told the
truth.” Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus), 3D
World #1040.
“The amazing tones on the album owe as much
to the likes of Madlib as they do Four Tet,
Aphex Twin, Kode9, Motown, Pink Floyd,
Miles Davis or Ornette Coleman.” Brad Swob,
3D World #1012.

5.CA
5.CARIBOU
Swim (City Slang/Shock)
“Snaith has again succeeded
in creating
a wondrous
crea
and fantaﬆ
fan ical world for
liﬆene
eners to explore with
hazy h
house anthems like Sun
and underﬆated disco-pop
disco-po gems like opener
Odessaa ...probably prove to be one of the moﬆ
beloved albums of 2010.” Matt O’Neill, 3D
World #1012.

7.THE CHEMICAL
BROTHERS
BRO
Further (EMI)
Furth
“I think
thin we’re both positive
at the moment
– we’re really
m
happy to be making music
that gets
ge to people. There’s
always kind of been, some of the words that

Tom has used and written, there’s always
that kind of positivity. We’re from The E
Generation.” Ed Simons (The Chemical
Brothers), 3D World #1026.
“There’s a lot to like about Further – a big
reminder that when the chemiﬆs ﬆop
experimenting and ﬆick to the formula, few
can produce a natural high quite like them.”
Kris Swales, 3D World #1015.

8.TEC
8.TECHNASIA
Central (Technasia
Centr

Records/Stomp)
Record
“There are so many
diﬀerent
ere inﬂuences, so
many diﬀ
d erent vibes...
Whether
Wheth they make you
dance, whether they make you vibe, whether
they make you happy or whether
they make
w
you have special emotions, that is what I tried
to put into this album all together.” Charles
Siegling (Technasia), 3D World #1030.
“The ideas are simple, with moﬆ tracks only
ﬂaunting the bare minimum of elements, yet
Siegling executes every move to perfect ion.”
Kris Swales, 3D World #1018.

(Def Ja
Jam/Universal)
““How I Got Over, is one
of the ﬁneﬆ albums of
their 115-plus year career,
another combination of
anothe
one of the moﬆ consiﬆent MC’s in the game
in Black Th
ought and visi
visionary producer/
Thought
drummer ?ueﬆ love’s deft, and progressive, ear
for a great hook. The album ﬁnds the band
in a particularly sombre mood, a jaded poﬆGFC melancholy weighing heavily on their
shoulders.” Darren Collins, 3D World #1023

1.UNDERWORLD
Scribble

(Cooking Vinyl/Shock)
“22 years on and
Underworld ﬆ ill know
how to throw a good
curve ball, and with
melodic drum‘n’bass
prodigy High Contraﬆ joining the duo in the
ﬆ udio they’ve delivered one of their biggeﬆ
tracks in years with Scribble. It’s beyond
massive, it makes you smile, it makes you want
to dance and it’s everything anyone could ever
hope for from an Underworld album preview.”
Kris Swales, 3D World #1013.
“High Contraﬆ lives in Wales, almoﬆ in the
same ﬆ reet that I lived in – and he knows all
the same people I used to know! Rick went
down to Wales for a short while and worked
there, and he came up and worked for a short
while. Lincoln was fantaﬆ ic because he took
[the live working version of You Do Scribble]
and he did a lot of work on it and returned
it to us, and we thought it was a fantaﬆic
inﬆ rumental. To be honeﬆ I really thought
there were going to be more inﬆ rumentals
on this album than there turned out to be,
because Rick would on all of them go ‘you
know, yeah it sounds fantaﬆ ic, but have a go
at a vocal’.” Karl Hyde (Underworld) from a
previously unpublished quote to 3D World,
Wednesday 1 September 2010.
“It was great to work with them because
they’re people who have inﬂuenced me from
the beginning. Apparently, they were big
fans of mine, but they were scared to get in
touch sooner. They thought, because I was a
drum‘n’bass DJ, I was gonna be some kind of
bad boy gangﬆer! But, luckily, they realised
that I’m juﬆ a musical geek like them, so we
got on well.” Lincoln Barrett (High Contraﬆ),
3D World #1037 (Sydney edition).

There were no female or Auﬆ ralian artiﬆs in our Top Ten, with Janelle Monae’s The
ArchAndroid juﬆ missing out on repping the former and M-Phazes debut Good Gracious
doing likewise for the latter. Perhaps more signiﬁcantly DJ mixes didn’t even feature in the
Top 20, with only John Digweed’s Structures, Agoria’s Balance 016, Apparat’s DJ-Kicks and
dBridge & Inﬆ ra:mental’s Fabriclive 50 getting multiple nods (Shackleton’s Fabric 55 was
more de facto artiﬆ album than compilation).

NAT

FUN FACTS

Although the all-conquering Kanye Weﬆ
didn’t feature in this category, it’s probably
because he cannibalised his own vote with so
many big tunes – our writers couldn’t decide
whether Power, Runaway, Monﬆer or That’s
My Bitch with Jay-Z was the pick of his 2010
output. Caribou, Flying Lotus, Illy, LCD
Soundsyﬆem, The Chemical Brothers and
Underworld all had three tracks nominated.

3DWRITERS’POLL
INTERNATIONAL
ARTIST OF THE YEAR

HONOURABLE
MENTIONS
Janelle Monáe;
LCD Soundﬆ yﬆem;
Flying Lotus; James
Blake.
FUN FACTS
In proof that
chinﬆ roke and
blatantly mainﬆ ream
musical taﬆes can
happily co-exiﬆ, the
picks of team 3D
proudly ﬆ raddle the
divide – from Lady
Gaga to Tensnake,
from Katy Perry to
Salem, from Shed
to Nicki Minaj and
Drake. Even Rick
Aﬆ ley picked up
a solitary vote for
reasons beﬆ known
only to the writer in
queﬆ ion.

KANYE WEST
Could it be anyone else? Regular music
media darlings LCD Soundsyﬆ em and
Flying Lotus both captured their respect ive
zeitgeiﬆ s with spect acular album drops
while relative newcomers Janelle Monáe and
James Blake made their presence felt, but
2010 was all about Yeezy – originally for
worse, ultimately for better. Th e hangover
from Weﬆ ’s ill-advised ﬆ age invasion
during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech
at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards
raged well into 2010 as both artiﬆ s used
it to clock up frequent ﬂ yer miles on the
publicity clock before Weﬆ joined his earlier
sparring partner 50 Cent on Twitter to
deliver condensed versions of his rambling
blog. Th en he ﬆ arted drip-feeding a track
a week through the GOOD Fridays series
on his website, ﬆ arting with Power (Remix)
on 20 Auguﬆ and wrapping up 13 weeks
later with Chain Heavy featuring Talib
Kweli and Consequence with Q-Tip on the
boards. A sprinkling of the series ended up
on My Beautiful Dark Twiﬆed Fantay when
it dropped worldwide on 22 November, and
the reﬆ is hiﬆory. Especially for Weﬆ, who is
rumoured to have spent at leaﬆ some of his time
touring Auﬆralia in December as Jay-Z’s gueﬆ
of honour decamped in Melbourne’s Sing Sing
ﬆ udio to work on his next magnum opus…

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST
OF THE YEAR

M-PHAZES
With Australian hip hop enjoying another
red letter year, particularly if judged on
the sheer number of artists (known or
otherwise) releasing long-players, EPs
and mixtapes, it’s perhaps fitting that the
man who produced one of 2010’s strongest
debuts gets the nod. Both our Victorian and
Queensland stables lay claim to the superproducer who was raised in the latter’s Gold
Coast region yet now resides in the former’s
capital, and rightly so – with Pharoahe
Monch reportedly calling on his knobtwiddling services for as many as six tracks
on his forthcoming WAR (We Are Renegades),
M-Phazes is certainly hot property. But it
was his Good Gracious album released way
back in February which served notice of
his skills, its crisp and uniform aesthetic
(inspired by the classic boom-bap ethos with
the odd detour into pseudo drum‘n’bass
rhythms) giving the record a singular voice
despite a varied guest cast including Illy,
Muph, Mantra and Drapht on the break-out
track Where’s Elvis?. “I think I’ve just been
doing this so long that I’ve developed a style
I can’t really escape from – and I don’t mean
that in a bad way – but it’s almost like a
natural thing for me to have my own sound
now,” he told 3D World in March. And it’s a
sound that looks set to resonate beyond our
shores in 2011.
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FUN FACTS
M-Phazes earned his title the hard way with spirited competition from
fellow album debutantes Tame Impala, the ubiquitous Washington and
Space Invadas, while Bliss N Eso’s Running On Air was another winner
for the Sydney crew. Crossover acts ﬆ raddling the elect ronic/indie divide
were the ﬂavour of 2010, with Yolanda Be Cool and Jaytech the higheﬆ
ranking acts cut from the traditional DJ/producer cloth.

VIC

VIC

3DWRITERS’POLL
INTERNATIONAL
ARTIST GIG OF
THE YEAR

ORBITAL
The announcement of elect ronic music legends
Orbital heading to Auﬆ ralia to headline
Playgorund Weekender in February 2010 was
the laﬆ piece of news slotted into the then
Sydney-only 3D World in 2009 – that the
inevitable eaﬆ coaﬆ sideshows have taken out
top spot is almoﬆ a given. And our reviews of
those shows probably say it beﬆ…
“The beats bumped while fabulously textured
washes of synth sounds cascaded over
everything at times adding abﬆ ract ion and
at others giving the mix a more ethereal
dimension.“ Guido Farnell review of Orbital
at Billboard (Melbourne) Friday 19 February
2010 in Zebra (RIP).
“Satan seemed to divide the crowd, with half
throwing up the Devil horns, head-banging
and juﬆ generally losing it, and the other
half ﬆanding around waiting for something
a little less face-melting. However there was
no division when the ﬁ rﬆ notes of Chime rang
out. As one, thousands of spirit ﬁngers ﬂoated
in the air and the crowd sang along (albeit by
juﬆ repeating the sound “do-do-do” over and
over)…” Andrew Wowk review of Orbital at
The Forum (Sydney) Tuesday 23 February 2010
in 3D World #1000.

ORBITAL 1 @ FAMILY, BRISBANE - PHOTO BY TERRY SOO

“A barefoot,
muﬆachioed Phil
Hartnoll and his
unassuming brother
Paul take position at
the helm of ﬆarship
Orbital, coax the
opening ﬆ rains of
Out There Somewhere?
out of their consoles
and drop a sonic
boom which proves

to a packed Family danceﬂoor that this battle ﬆation is indeed fully
operational… This is one for the ages.” Kris Swales review of Orbital at
Family (Brisbane) Wednesday 24 February 2010 in Zebra (RIP).
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
A Tribe Called Queﬆ ; LCD Soundsyﬆem; Gorillaz; Salt-N-Pepa.
FUN FACTS
Noﬆalgia is king in the concert halls of Auﬆ ralia, with A Tribe Called
Queﬆ’s unlikely but much appreciated Auﬆ ralian debut and Salt-NPepa’s equally unlikely yet triumphant return both proving winners
alongside hype acts LCD Soundsyﬆem (who dominated Splendour In
The Grass) and Gorillaz – who had only played Melbourne when our
writers were polled.

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST
GIG OF THE YEAR

MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS
It doesn’t matter where the writers of 3D World
saw Melbourne trio Midnight Juggernauts –
whether in the band venues of Oz, a caﬆle in
Serbia or a feﬆival on the beach in Singapore,
they’re a clear-cut winner as Auﬆralia’s premier
live act. 3D scribe abroad Clare Dickins praised
the Aussies for saving the day at Serbia’s Exit
Feﬆival in July, with “Aussies on the ﬂoor to
ensure the parochial mosh action continues,
capped oﬀ by Road To Recovery – easily one
of the feﬆival’s moﬆ exhilarating highlights”.
While Sydneysider Jeremy Wood was
unconvinced by their 2010 album drop The
Cryﬆal Axis, he wrote of their Auguﬆ show at
The Forum “It is only when the lads return to
their magniﬁcent debut album, that the gig truly
shines. The perfect mish mash of pulsating rock
and synth-driven electro is a sight to behold
as indie classics Tombﬆone, Shadows and night
closer Into The Galaxy are performed predictably
brilliantly.” And when Kris Swales caught the
band wrap up their 2010 international campaign
at Singapore’s ZoukOut in December, he
witnessed “a handful of the already converted
joyously singing every word of Auﬆralian
feﬆival ﬆaples like Into The Galaxy ﬆraight back
at Vincent Vendetta, while Andrew Szekeres
taking the vocoder for Tombﬆone is also a
highlight – until the band’s roadie Dale takes the
ﬆage sax in hand to help the band blaﬆ through
Gerry Raﬀerty’s Baker Street”.
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HONOURABLE
MENTIONS
Drapht; Chriﬆ ian
Vance; PVT;
Regurgitator (Akira
Live Score).
FUN FACTS
Regional voting
impacted heavily
here, with acts like
Simon Caldwell,
Kylie Auldiﬆ, Mat
Cant, We Are Fans,
Cosmo Cater and
3D World ’s own
Robbie Lowe picking
up high scores in
their own territories
without translating
the votes down the
eaﬆ coaﬆ.

INCEPTION
One actor with his head ﬆ itched on a second body to play a set of twins,
the end of the beﬆ trilogy ever made, Guy Pearce’s mouﬆache and a
barely teen girl dropping C-Bombs all got our notice, but the thinking
person’s blockbuﬆer was unﬆoppable. Positing itself as an enigma
wrapped in a riddle, Inception was more like an act ion ﬁ lm – albeit a
very, very good one – wrapped up in both those things. Current Batman
franchise director Chriﬆopher Nolan continued a golden run ﬆ retching
back as far as 2000’s Memento with a Leonardo DiCaprio ﬆar vehicle
which gave juﬆ as much screen time to a top-heavy ensemble including
Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page,
Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger and Michael Caine. What was it all
about? A group of spies inﬁ ltrating the dreams of others to ﬆeal valuable
secrets from their unconscious minds. What does it all mean? Who cares
when cities fold over on themselves and hallways spiral out of control. Do
androids dream of elect ric sheep? Spin the top and see where you end up.
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
The Social Network; Toy Story 3; Animal Kingdom; Kick-Ass.

TV SHOW OF THE YEAR

MAD MEN
While David Simon fans were ﬆ ill too busy catching up with The Wire’s
ﬁnal roll of the dice to anoint Treme a slot in 3D World ’s liﬆ, disciples
of Don Draper and his cronies were settling in for the fourth season of
Mad Men. Spoiler alerts prevent us from going into great detail, but who
wouldn’t be drawn into the world of advertising in 1960s New York when
the men make George Clooney look unreﬁned and the ladies are curvier
then Katy Perry? The AMCTV network are clearly on a hot ﬆ reak, with
Breaking Bad (about a cancer-suﬀering chemiﬆ ry teacher who takes to
cooking meth to provide for his family when he’s gone) somehow getting
more popular the darker the themes it explores – having Bryan Cranﬆon
play one of the great anti-heroes of all time surely helps its cause.
Elsewhere Dexter’s return to form (complete with headcaving Season
Four ﬁnale) has been noted by Team 3D and Modern Family proves
that commercial TV isn’t a total dead zone, while Martin Scorsese’s
Prohibition era drama Boardwalk Empire getting the nod despite not yet
screening in Auﬆ ralia has us completely bewildered. How can it be?
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Breaking Bad; Dexter; Modern Family; Boardwalk Empire.

ONLINE DESTINATION
OF THE YEAR

SOUNDCLOUD
It seems 3D World ’s writers were slightly more intereﬆed in watching a
movie about Facebook then updating their ﬆatus this year – in fact the
social networking behemoth was topped by two music portals, one of
them the awesome social media-esque SoundCloud. The 2007 German
creation is a beﬆ-kept secret no more and whether you want to ﬁnd
that fresh new edit of that track you never thought you needed to hear,
preview your favourite artiﬆ’s forthcoming drop or download a club set
(moﬆ likely with the artiﬆ in queﬆ ion’s permission) as soon as the DJ
has ﬆepped out of the booth, chances are you’re in the right place. In
many ways it’s everything the good people at MySpace always dreamt of
creating, only with a user friendly interface and a diﬆ inct lack of noobgenerated clutter. Making a late surge for top spot amongﬆ the usual
suspects was Julian Assange and his rogue band of journos and sources at
WikiLeaks. Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year? Pﬀ t. If he can keep out
of jail for another 12 months a coveted gong from the writers of 3D World
is all but assured.
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Resident Advisor; Facebook; WikiLeaks; Twitter.

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RADIO SHOW/PODCAST

RA PODCAST
You’ve got to hand it to the brains truﬆ at Resident Advisor – while their
picks for Album Of The Year have aligned surprisingly closely with 3D
World given their predilect ion for ﬆ roking chins that are yet to even
develop the hint of ﬆ ubble, their weekly RA Podcaﬆ is oﬀ in a world of its
own. They signed oﬀ on 2009 with Tensnake before Coma Cat sent him
to the top of the hypeometer, and though 2010 delivered sets from such
respected names as Carl Craig and Rub-N-Tug there were juﬆ as many
curveballs thrown in. Let’s face it, if you act ually know the identity of
the myﬆerious 19.454.18.5.25.5.18 it’s probably time for you to unhook
yourself from The Matrix and spend some time under that big ﬁery ball
of heat in the sky. Having an eaﬆ coaﬆ radio reach helped funnymen
Hamish & Andy take out the silver medal, but from here our writers
logged in, clicked on and blissed out – whether it be to the downtempo
drum‘n’bass of Autonomic courtesy of dBridge & Inﬆ ra:mental, the
progressive ﬂavours of John Digweed and gueﬆs on Transitions or various
shards of disco-ish fare from Tim Sweeney and co on Beats In Space.
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
The Hamish & Andy Show; Autonomic; John Digweed – Transitions; Beats
In Space.

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ONE TRACK MIND

THE BEST OF 2010

3D WORLD’S DUELLING SINGLE REVIEWERS OFFER
THEIR PICKS OF THE BEST SINGLE PLAYS OF 2010.
FIRST UP: TIM FINNEY.
THE FIVES FEAT VANYA TAYLOR
It’s What You Do (Hotteﬆ By Far)
(Independent)

Where most pop songs struggled to concoct one great hook, The
Fives’ UK funky anthem stitched together four in a row. In the year’s
most frothy, delirious piece of dance-pop, Vanya’s slinky vocals glide
across the bouncy, string riﬀ assisted soca-house groove with a selfassurance that seems hardly human. Exhilarating.

Grandiose synth-pop balladry that doubles as a hymn for a generation
deﬁned by its celebrity fuck-ups, Dark Destiny’s insistent chords and
deﬂated falsetto vocals underscore the fragility of its optimism, but “I’ll
keep defending choices you’re making” remains an unexpectedly honest
and moving aﬃrmation of friendship and ﬁdelity. Tearjerking.

YELAWOLF
Pop The Trunk
(DGC Records)

A southern gothic confessional from the year’s best new rapper by
a considerable distance, Pop The Trunk caught Yelawolf ’s ﬂow at its
most lucid and unsettling, accelerating and stretching out with eerie
ﬂuency as he oﬀers character sketches of sociopathic family and
friends with a biblical sense of solemnity. Haunting.

THE-DREAM
Yamaha
(Def Jam)

In which R&B mastermind The-Dream takes his Prince obsession
to its logical conclusion. His Yamaha is even louder and faster than
his hero’s little red corvette, boasting a joyfully stuttering electro
beat, an impossibly gleaming synthetic arrangement and cavernous
multi-tracked vocals that sound like light refracted into a rainbow.
Overwhelming.

MARCOS CABRAL & SHUX
Lifetime Groove
(On The Prowl Party Breaks)

On ﬁrst play Lifetime Groove’s 12 minute groove feels like it’ll never
end; on each replay you hope it never will. With looping samples
from the New Edition classic into a blissful inﬁnity of shuddering
drums and bittersweet bass, Cabral & Shux oﬀered an improbable
new pinnacle for disco revivalism. Sheltering.

RICK ROSS
BMF (Blowing Money Faﬆ)
(Def Jam)

In 2010 apocalyptic street rap’s name was Drumma Boi, and no groove
was as all-encompassing as BMF, a beat so dumb-big its biceps had
biceps. As for Rick Ross: “I think I’m Big Meech! Larry Hoover!” Who
cares what it means? It sounds awesome screamed from a rooftop at
3am. Energising.
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KINGDOM
Fogs

(Wolf + Lamb)
Jaar understands
the science of
dance rhythms
better than
possibly anyone else right now. A Time For Us
is extravagant, delicate blues-house that Henrik
Schwarz would sell his soul for. Scintillating.

FANTASIA
Man Of The
House
(J Records)

Is Fantasia pop’s
best storyteller?
Not in the tale
– though Man of
the House oﬀers
excellent battle of the sexes material – but
the telling, her hyper-melismatic, now-grittynow-coy voice adding nuances no one else
could. And no one else could make this steely,
sensible lecture on familial duties sound so
sympathetic. Rousing.

MAD ONE
House Girls
6
(Devine UK)

The year’s hardest
house groove was
almost nothing
but percussion:
sampling that
hail-on-tin snare pattern from Dennis Ferrer’s
Hey Hey and adding layers and layers of tribal
percussion until the junglistic density of the
groove approaches white noise. Exhausting.

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ONE TRACK MIND

THE BEST OF 2010

3D WORLD’S DUELLING SINGLE REVIEWERS OFFER
THEIR PICKS OF THE BEST SINGLE PLAYS OF 2010.
WITH HIS REPLY: ANDREW WOWK.
CHRISTIAN VANCE
Wanna Give Ya (Claire Morgan Vibez)
(HAUL Music)

HAUL Music has been one of the moﬆ consiﬆent labels of the year,
and newcomer (sort of) Claire Morgan gives Vance’s Wanna Give Ya
the remix treatment and delivers a worthy tune of the year. The shuﬄy
percussion and quirky vocal ﬆabs complement the deep bass and lush
synth washes, while the raw, jackin’ beats keep it danceﬂoor friendly.

CHYMERA
The Rumours Of My Demise
(Komplex De Deep)

While all his output over the paﬆ 12 months has been excellent, The
Rumours Of My Demise has been Chymera’s moﬆ memorable tune in
that time. Th is needs only some basic percussion, a funky bassline,
reverbed sax and a synth line that follows the same progression of
notes as the bassline to rock a danceﬂoor.

SPECTRASOUL
Bygones
(Shogun Audio)

Spect rasoul continued to dominate this year, oﬀering up more of
their blend of techy, ﬆ ripped-back beats, low sub bass, non-cheesey
vocals and subtle pads. Proving you don’t need ten million layers
of compressed drums to write good d‘n’b, Bygones is bare essentials
d‘n’b – and it sounds beﬆ that way.

VINCE WATSON
Love In F Minor
(Everysoul)

Emotive, thoughtful and lush while ﬆ ill driving and punchy enough
for a peaktime danceﬂoor, Love In F Minor is soulful, melodic
techno at its very beﬆ. It’s hard to pick a favourite part of this tune
when everything from the chunky drums to the improvised piano
jams are fantaﬆ ic.

BREAK, CALYX & TEEBEE
Don’t Look Down
(Symmetry)

Th ree of d‘n’b’s biggeﬆ ﬆars ﬁnally sit down together at the same
time and churn out a tune and, perhaps unsurpisingly, the result is
amazing. The sort of bomb that if dropped at exa ct ly the right time
will cause serious carnage thanks to its subtle, funky intro which
eventually gives way to a mammoth drop, hammering drums and
rolls that are a work of art.

2010 seems to have been Chez Damier’s comeback year, and we’re all
the better for it. This is classic Damier vibes: deep, funky, chunky, raw,
and of course, long. Coming in at juﬆ under 10 minutes, this one is
deﬁnitely for the ﬂoors that love the grooves, with Rhodes keys, bouny
acid licks and old school analogue bass to keep it rolling the whole way.
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ZERO T
Taviﬆock
Dub

(Nu Direct ions)
Zero T has had
an excellent
year and
Taviﬆock Dub
is juﬆ one of his
many highlights. Steppy beats, cut up breaks,
reverbed ragga vocals and ﬂoaty synths create
a false sense of security early on, leading one
to think this is juﬆ another Zero T liquid
tune, but watch the drop on this one – it’s
devaﬆating.

Th e genius
behind Jesu took his Pale Sketches album
and completely deconﬆ ruct ed it, as well as
oﬀ ered a few of his inspirations the chance
to remix him. Donnacha Coﬆ ello’s remix of
Can I Go Now? ﬆ ands head and shoulders
above the reﬆ . Both beautiful and ugly,
uplifting and depressing.

JUNE
MILLER
& MINDMAPPER
Quartz
Controlled

(Buried Audio)
In amongﬆ
all the noisy,
wobbly cheese, a select group of d‘n’b producers
are ﬆ ripping things back, getting techy and
bringing dark atmospherics back to the genre.
June Miller have led the charge in 2010, and
Quartz Controlled has received a thrashing
thanks to its tight, crisp beats, futuriﬆ ic sci-ﬁ
soundscapes and sublime bassline.

INSTRA:
MENTAL
Let’s Talk

(Naked Lunch)
Genre benders
Inﬆ ra:mental
take a break
from broken
beats and serve
up some sub120bpm deep house vibes with that trademark
Inﬆ ra:mental aeﬆ hetic. Techy and slightly leftof-centre, but ﬆ ill perfect for the danceﬂoor,
Let’s Talk relies on a deep, throbbing bassline,
warm pads and a very suggeﬆ ive vocal.

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MENTAL
COMBAT
Hip Hop With BLAZE

RESIN DOGS

I’m ﬁnding it increasingly hard to organise my
music collect ion these days. Once upon a time I
could go through my shelves and look through
a heap of records or CDs, but now it’s pretty
much all digital downloads with the occasional
vinyl or (even rarer) an act ual unadulterated
compact disc. Now I hear you scream, “but
check your iTunes library”. Yeah right. It’s a
frickin’ mess. Not everything is catalogued
in one spot, or even with proper ID marks,
covers, etc. My music collect ion resides on my
computer, my girlfriend’s PC, work, burnt
unmarked data discs, USB ﬆ icks… It’s all over
the shop and I’ve totally loﬆ track of what has
come out this year. Beﬆ idea would be for me to
go through my columns, but honeﬆ ly I can’t be
arsed, so I’ll juﬆ mention some highlights.
I’m glad that Cut Chemiﬆ has returned,
albeit without much musical fanfare and with
a belated intereﬆ in Ethiopian jazz, but I’m
a fan and anything from the dude is dope in
my books. DJ Format is also back with his
remix for Speedometer and his work with
his quirky future-retro act Simonsound. DJ
Shadow ﬁnally released something worthwhile,
even though it was his earlier work with The
4-Track Era EP on vinyl. France’s Dj Moar was
bouncing out all over the place with vinyl in
all shapes and sizes. The funk label Mocambo
has been blew my socks oﬀ with every release
– Indian sitar funk, gold coloured 45s, Swiss
freakbeat, African school bands, and moﬆ of
them B-boy friendly. Even UK Breakin’ Bread
have returned with a B-boy explosion 7” from
drummer extraordinaire Malcolm Catto.
In fact it’s the unusually packaged and coloured
vinyl releases that have been keeping collectors
and music fans happy. Even Resin Dogs
members Katch and Dave have juﬆ dropped
a limited 100press for their lateﬆ white label,
whilﬆ a heap of Aussie funk outﬁts such as
Adelaide’s The Transatlantics and Candice
Monique and the Optics, Sydney’s Dojo Cuts
and the oddly psychedelic Captn K from WA all
dropped wax.
Has it been a good year for hip hop? It feels like
it’s in a weird transitional period. But seriously
I cannot run through a year’s worth in such a
short amount of space. Maybe next year I will
endeavour to keep tabs on it, but as usual life
will get in the way and sabotage any kind of
organisation I would have in mind.

RADIO SHOWS/
PODCASTS
The Super
B-Beat Show superbbeatshow.
blogspot.com
The Nextmen thenextmen.com/
podcaﬆ
Beyond Jazz beyondjazz.net
ONLINE
DESTINATIONS
Twitch Film
Elect ro Empire
Paris DJs
More Than A Stance
Vimeo
HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Mocambo record
label. Killer funk
releases.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Kanye Weﬆ. Over
extended presence.
Go monk it out
somewhere remote.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“I absolve you of all
your sins. Now, get
the fuck out!” Padre
Benito del Toro from
the ﬁ lm Machete.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
2010 ARIA Awards.
What a crock of shit.

trance), the Swedish
House Maﬁa (more
trance), Ke$ha
(wannabe rebel),
rock-hop albums (Lil
Wayne), models on
decks (Nervo), plus
Jessica Watson and
girls on yachts...
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Laneway was the beﬆ
curated and moﬆ
enjoyable feﬆival
experience, the music
video made a comeback
(from MIA’s Born
Free to Eminem’s
powerful Love The Way
You Lie), and neo-folk
inﬂuenced urban and
provided a foil to Autotuned trance-hop.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Shout-out to Alfred,
Lord Tennyson.”
Jay-Z’s Decoded
autobiography.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
The Solargate furore
following Guru’s
passing.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
2011 will bring a
new gothic inﬂuence
into pop, with the
eerie Ebsen And The
Witch – and more
poﬆ-chillwave (like
Summer Camp) and
its hip hop variant
illwave (Kid Cudi).
There will be more
girls on guitar (Anna
Calvi). Also expect
the return of deep
Detroit techno...

2010 should have been Eminem’s year, but
then Kanye Weﬆ unleashed My Beautiful
Dark Twiﬆed Fantasy. The Chi-towner created
maximaliﬆ, surrealiﬆ and hubriﬆic hip hop
about his own American dream unspiralling.
There were signiﬁcant rebirths this year. Usher
charmed back his female audience – and showed
himself to be Michael Jackson’s true successor.
His R&B blockbuﬆer Raymond V Raymond
spawned a smash in will.i.am’s ﬆadium-ﬁed
OMG. However, no comeback was as victorious
as that of the Godfather of Emo Rap. On the
transformative Recovery, Marshall Mathers
deconﬆructed ‘Eminem’. He also teamed with
Rihanna for Love The Way You Lie, analysing the
dynamics of an abusive relationship.
Lil Wayne’s output underwhelmed (the rockhop Rebirth – shudder!), but Weezy’s Young
Money proteges blew up. Canadian anti-MC
Drake dropped his proto-illwave Thank Me
Later. Nicki Minaj emerged as the moﬆ
successful femcee in years, rattling the Queen
Bee herself, Lil’ Kim. Hip hop’s Barbie was
the go-to cameo act of the year. And the Your
Love rapper upﬆaged underground playaresses
like Kid Siﬆer and even MIA with her pop/
dance/art hybrid Pink Friday. In fact, 2010
was a good year for urban’s female contenders,
Janelle Monáe dazzling with the conceptual
The ArchAndroid, Kelis modernising disco on
Flesh Tone and Jessica Mauboy blossoming
into a bona-ﬁde R&B ﬆar with her (admittedly
contentious) Snoop Dogg collab Get ‘Em Girls.
Gnarls Barkley’s Cee Lo Green relished a viral
hit in Fuck You and contributed the freak folk
What Part Of Forever to the Twilight: Eclipse
OST. But Green’s real triumph was to deliver
his ﬆ rongeﬆ solo album yet in The Lady Killer –
transgressive disco-soul.
The UK’s Plan B ﬆaged the reinvention of
2010. The poﬆ-Eminem MC metamorphosed
into a gritty neo-soulﬆer, part Daniel
Merriweather, part Everlaﬆ, on The Defamation
Of Strickland Banks. The Eaﬆ End kid was
among several Brit movers, from the gangﬆa
Giggs and ﬆ reet-pop MC Professor Green to
the blinged-out grimer Tinie Tempah.
Hip hop also loﬆ a pioneer in Guru, half
of GangStarr. Sadly, Guru’s passing was
overshadowed when his later cohort Solar
circulated a circumspect “farewell letter” in
which the MC dissed DJ Premier... Solar
became the moﬆ hated man in hip hop.

SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
The person who
signed Catherine
Deveny up for
Twitter. I’ll see you
in hell!
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
John Cusack will
learn how to drive
a limousine in
preparation for
the events of the
following year.
Repeats of Meerkat
Manor will continue
to be Sunday
afternoon TV ﬁller.
Karl Stefanovic will
reveal himself as a
guinea-pig eating
lizard. Transformers
3 will open to
spectacular reviews.
Santa will identify the
bodies he buried in
the Belanglo Foreﬆ.

HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Learning to tie my shoelace.
DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE
Katy Perry.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“I am the fucking game.” Johnny ‘Drama’
Chase
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK-UP
Jonathan Holmes from Media Watch
accidentally poﬆ ing his mobile number on
Twitter.
PREDICTION FOR 2011
An information superhighway will revolutionise
communication forever…

DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
That Kanye Weﬆ
album. His tweets
about it were far more
entertaining.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Right, where
was I? Oh yes, the
government....”
Rob Oakeshott,
somewhere near the
ﬆart of that speech
that overshot his 15
minutes of fame by
two minutes.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Fiddy Cent’s
management
allowing the rapper
to control his own

Twitter account
wasn’t a fuck-up, coz
it gave us gold: “Look
michelle obama Need
I thug in her life
fuck that come here
Girl you can be my
mentor”.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
An ironic ‘Death To
Disco’ movement will
lead to an un-ironic
pub rock revival which
peaks with a Don’t
Look Back-ﬆyle
feﬆival with Auﬆralian
Crawl playing The Boys
Light Up LP with the
lyrics on a big screen
so the guys in the
pool room can ﬁnally
decipher the lyrics.
Moshing, Infusion
opening with Spike,
Godﬂesh reforming.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Layo & Bushwacka.
That performace was
juﬆ plain sad.

ROYALSTON

Church Of Techno/
The Forbes Hotel
MOVIES
Scott Pilgrim vs The
World
The Men Who Stare At
Goats
Kick-Ass
Shutter Island
The Social Network
TV SHOWS
Dexter
Fringe
The Walking Dead
24
Psych
RADIO SHOW/
PODCASTS

QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“The internet has
given a voice to a lot
of people who don’t
deserve to be heard.”
The Juan MacLean,
InTheMix
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
MIA tweeting the
name and number of
a New York Times

journaliﬆ who pissed
her oﬀ made her look
like an utter tool.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Fingers crossed we’ll
see the big NEW
product ion trend
– the new minimal
techno, the new
French elect ro, the
new dubﬆep etc...

ONLINE
DESTINATIONS
SoundCloud
Wikileaks
Springwise
Something Changed
Beatport
HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
The amount of quality
acts and DJs to visit
Auﬆ ralia in 2010 and
the ﬆandard of their
performances. It was
a “beﬆ eva” year.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Steve Aoki, Bloody

Beetroots, Tiëﬆo.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“I’m not a witch.” US
Politician Chriﬆ ine
O’Donnell.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Facebook’s continued
fuck-around with
privacy settings.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Further erosion of
personal liberties
by governments in
the name of terrorprevention, and house
prices to plummet.

QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Delta Goodrem...
I have a very
complicated
relationship with
this woman.” - Bret
Eaﬆon Ellis at Byron
Bay Writers Feﬆ ival
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Kanye Weﬆ’s Twitter
account. Enough said.

HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR

PREDICTION
FOR 2011
We will ﬁnally learn
the truth about
the exiﬆence of
extraterreﬆ rials.

HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Dwight Howard.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Yeezy Taught Me.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Where the fuck
is Kanye when you
need him?” Eminem,
No Love.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
John Mayer quits
Twitter.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Lovers Gonna Love.

Dirty South @ Exit
Feﬆ ival (Serbia)
MOVIES
Animal Kingdom
The Kids Are All Right
The Social Network
The White Ribbon
The Hurt Locker
TV SHOWS
Skins
Kathy Griﬃn: My Life
On The D-Liﬆ
Weeds
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
RADIO SHOW/
PODCASTS
The Sunday Inquisition
- 774 ABC
John Digweed
Transitions - Kiss FM
Above & Beyond Trance Around The World
ONLINE
DESTINATIONS
Resident Advisor
Adem With An E
The Longest Way Home
Lonely Planet
Travel For London

FAITHLESS

HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Losing my shit at Exit
Feﬆival when The
Chemical Brothers
dropped Swoon.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Yolanda Be Cool,
Tinie Tempah,
Cheryl Cole...
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
A guy ﬆaying at our
hoﬆel in Eﬆonia says
he’s from Townsville
and without skipping
a beat a random local

pipes in with “are you
a bogan?”.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Paris Hilton claiming
the coke-ﬁlled purse
she was arreﬆed for
wasn’t hers, clearly
forgetting she’d earlier
tweeted a photo of it.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Cheryl Cole appears
on American
X-Factor only to be
subtitled because
local audiences can’t
underﬆand her.

Oxford Art Factory
The Jezabels @ Big
Top, Luna Park
Creepers @
Gladﬆone Hotel
MOVIES
The Social Network
Harry Potter And
The Deathly Hallows:
Part 1
Scott Pilgrim vs The
World
Exit Through The Gift
Shop
Fish Tank
TV SHOWS
Party Down
The Trip
Lowdown
The IT Crowd

Newswipe with
Charlie Brooker
RADIO SHOW/
PODCASTS
This American Life
- National Public
Radio
Tech Weekly - The
Guardian
By Design - Radio
National
ONLINE
DESTINATIONS
Twitter
Touch Arcade
Design*Sponge
Shoebox Blog: Chuck
& Beans
Tumblr
HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR

The Pop Life
exhibition at the Tate
Modern, and The
Libertines reforming
for Reading/Leeds.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Short Stack.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“A million dollars
isn’t cool. You know
what’s cool? A billion
dollars.”
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
That rugby league
player with the dog.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Daft Punk will
play Vivid LIVE in
Sydney.

HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
New Cobbleﬆone Jazz album, then a solo eﬀort
from band member Danuel Tate.
DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE
Model 500. They’ve released groundbreaking
music in the paﬆ but I’m not so sure the group
remains as relevant today. Time will tell.
QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“Gold Bond foot powder on your balls after you
shower; it’s like angels kissing your nuts. It’s
amazing.” Seth Troxler (who else?)
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK-UP
Kanye Weﬆ. Love him or hate him, he does
make a habit of fucking up on every media
channel available.
PREDICTION FOR 2011
More dancing, less bullshit.

3DWRITERS’POLL

DARREN COLLINS

coming home; the
return of the 90s in
house music; while
New York hip hop
continued sleeping
(Das Raciﬆ , 1982,
Homeboy Sandman
aside) the south
ﬁ nally threw up
some good music
(Big Boi, Big KRIT,
Yelawolf) and the
weﬆ coaﬆ ﬆ irred
in a big way (Dom
Kennedy, Kendrick
Lamar, Odd Future).

Breaking Bad
AFL Footy
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
ihiphop
Discogs
Essendon Football Club
Traxsource
Hip Hop Site
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Kanye Weﬆ owning the entire second half of
the year; James Hird and Bomber Thompson

Auﬆ ralia survived
the 2010 ARIA
Awards, unifying the
masses in a powerful
display of solidarity,
determined that
this scale of tragedy
muﬆ never befall
humankind again.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Home taping is
killing music.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Puﬀ wants the whole
thing to sound like...
Ketamine.” Seth
Troxler on working in
the ﬆ udio with Guy
Gerber and P Diddy.

SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
3D World for
forgetting the
password to the
Twitter account while
we were smashing
it at ZoukOut in
Singapore.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
I may have called this
one a little early in
laﬆ year’s poll, but
I’m conﬁdent that the
impending uprising
of our future robotic
overlords is bound to
happen in 2011. Th is
time for sure.

HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Kid Koala
Presents The Slew
performance, it
will go down in
hiﬆory as my all
time favourite gig.
Discovering music
gems like Maximum
Balloon and Sydders
outﬁt Ghoul. Indie
bashing – the moﬆ
fun to make fun of
a subculture since
the faux-hawkoompaloompaelect ro-ﬂuro culture

QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Mahogany blew me
away then, and then
they walked into
the audition room
and blew me again..”
Guy Sebaﬆ ian, The
X-Factor.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Carrie Bickmore’s
segment on Aussie
Culture in alignment
with Oprah’s visit to
Auﬆ ralia.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
More musical fusions
– hip hop with metal,
indie with blues, rock
with drum‘n’bass.

The Killer Inside Me
The Social Network
Exit Through The Gift
Shop
Winter’s Bone
TV SHOWS
Breaking Bad
Modern Family
Mad Men

HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
A Tribe Called
Queﬆ at Feﬆ ival
Hall; James Blake;
Kanye on Twitter.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Witch House.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
The White House;
The US Embassy
Cables; via
Wikileaks.

Wikileaks Megaleak, getting engaged,
all the Kiwis getting
overseas record
releases.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Lakers vs Boﬆon
NBA Finals.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
I AM THE MOST
ELECTRIFYING
MAN IN DANCE
MUSIC TODAY -

Smokin Joe Mekhael,
InTheMix
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Myspace 2.0.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
As predicted by this
mag some years
ago, it’s ﬆ ill Jay
Elect ronica. Now
that he’s teamed up
with Jay-Z, it’s ﬁnally
game time.

THE BEST OF 2010

JAKE SUN

An Idiot Abroad
RADIO SHOW/
PODCASTS
War Is Peace - 4ZzZ
The Jazz Show - 4ZzZ
World Beat - 4ZzZ

TV SHOWS
Outrageous Fortune
Keeping Up With The
Kardashians
Skins
Modern Family
The Big Bang Theory
RADIO SHOW/
PODCASTS
Hamish & Andy B105
The Hip Hop Show Triple J
Phat Tape - 4ZzZ
ONLINE
DESTINATIONS
Facebook
Blinkx Remote
DJ Booth
Time Oﬀ
Domain
HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Lauryn Hill @
Raggamuﬃn.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Kanye Weﬆ. I juﬆ
don’t get it. He was
so much cooler when
he was ﬆ ill rapping
with Twiﬆa.

NICKI MINAJ

QUOTE OF THE YEAR
“One shot for my pain, one drag for my sorrow, I’ll
get messed up today, I’ll be okay tomorrow.” Bruno
Mars – Liquor Store Blues.
SOCIAL MEDIA FUCK-UP
Carrie Bickmore selling McCafe as the cool
Aussie hang out for Oprah’s Down Under Tour.
PREDICTION FOR 2011
2010 but more marketably undeﬁnable.

QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Yo Taylor, I’m really
happy for you, I’ll let
you ﬁnish, but Beyonce
has one of the beﬆ
videos of all time. One
of the beﬆ videos of all
time!” Kanye Weﬆ
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Courtney Love.
Noodz. Twitter. Say
no more.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
LA Lakers
winning another
championship.

Kickﬆarter
HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Hard to go paﬆ
Wikileaks.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
NASA declaring
they’d discovered a
new recipe for life,
which turned out to be
not such good science.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Both the American

people and nations
that censor the internet
should underﬆand
that our government is
committed to helping
promote internet
freedom.” Hilary
Clinton.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
A new golden era
begins, and laﬆs until
the clock ﬁnally ticks
over to the end of the
world.
YouTube
HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Auﬆ ralia’s top model
fuck-up, Paul The
Octopus & Iceland’s
volcanoes.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
End of Year Beﬆ of
Liﬆs.

QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“It’s been a while.”
Leon Panetta, CIA
Director, answering
a queﬆ ion about
when US laﬆ “had
good intelligence” on
the whereabouts of
Osama bin Laden.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
“So the winner and
Auﬆ ralia’s next top
model for 2010 is....”
Sarah Murdoch.
Pure television.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
One more year to the
end of the world, so
have a good one!

QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“I’m perpetually
lonely. I’m lonely
when I’m in
relationships. It’s my
condition as an artiﬆ
... I have this weird
thing that if I sleep
with someone they’re
going to take my
creativity from me.”
Lady Gaga.

SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Sarah Palin – ﬆating
that USA will fully
support its North
Korean allies – all
over Twitter and
Facebook

DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Anything involving
vampires that wasn’t
Daybreakers.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“if you ﬆ roke your
chin hard enough i
heard a genie comes
out and gives you 3
track ids.” Th is eﬀort
from mashedman has
to be the beﬆ poﬆ on
InTheMix of all time.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Some people see Joel
Monaghan’s canine
love-in as a fuck-up
– I see it as one man’s
selﬂess act to (for a
day at leaﬆ) make the
Canberra Raiders the
beﬆ known sporting
franchise on Earth.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
I’ll tear up during at
leaﬆ one of the Kyuss
Lives gigs.

Who has time to keep up with all this?
ONLINE DESTINATIONS
Thesaurus.com
Wikipedia
New Matilda
Look At Th is Fucking Hipﬆer
ei
HIGHLIGHT(S) OF THE YEAR
Rudd’s ouﬆ ing.
DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE
The second coming of Jesus. It happened laﬆ
year. He lives on the Gold Coaﬆ.
PREDICTION FOR 2011
NSW State Liberal government.

All Songs Considered
- NPR
ONLINE
DESTINATIONS
Hypetrak
Hypebeaﬆ
Curated
MashKULTURE
SLAMXHYPE
HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Finding out that
Auﬆ ralian producer
M-Phazes is
producing beats for
Pharoahe Monch and
Talib Kweli.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Pretty much

everything The
Bloody Beetroots
touched.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Let me please
express how
amazingly I rap at
this point.” Kanye
Weﬆ.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Whomever showed
Kanye Weﬆ how to
use Twitter. Massive.
Twat.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
360’s new album.
Watch that shit blow
up!

HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Interviewing Jaz
Coleman.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Arcade Fire.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Th is is twitter?
Th is isn’t what I
wanted at all. What’s
the one where you
watch ﬆ rangers
maﬆ urbate?” Soren
Bowie, Twitter.
THE OPTIMEN

MOVIES
Inception
Kick-Ass
Toy Story 3
The Men Who Stare At
Goats
Up In The Air
TV SHOWS
The Good Wife
Damages
Always Sunny In
Philadelphia
Dexter
Loﬆ

SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
The greateﬆ
fuck-up is society’s
inexplicable belief that
a celebrity’s actions on
a social media website
should be held to the
same ﬆandard as their
actions in day-to daylife. Not to leap to the
defence of celebrities,
but is any one of us
bereft of social media
sin?
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Kalashnikovs and
Frankincense.

HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Musical boundaries
blurring, new sounds
and movements – eg
dubﬆep/techno/
house/footworx
hybrids. Great
quality reissues,
especially old-newwave, afro and other
weird obscurities.
The death of nudisco, pointless edits
and prog minimal.

DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Anything I’m already
over.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Doing nothing is
very hard to do...you
never know when
you’re ﬁnished.”
Leslie Nielsen.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Anyone who ended
up on Wikileaks.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
More of the same,
less of the other.
Ibiza.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
The “Swedish House
Maﬁa”.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“It is absolutely
bizzare that the
people who can’t
tell us what the
fucking weather is
next Tuesday can
predict with absolute
precision what
the fucking global
temperatures will be
in 100 years’ time.
It’s horseshit.” Ryanair boss Michael
O’Leary on the topic
of global warming.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Funkagenda bitching
about zippyshare and
illegal ﬁ lesharing on
his Twitter account.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Proper progressive
house and trance
will make a huge
comeback.

members of Deep
Street Soul & The
Bamboos, the Sydney
Road Feﬆ ival,
continued gigs
playing exact ly the
type of music I love
and watching my son
score his ﬁ rﬆ basket
playing basketball.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Herbie Lavender...
he’s not who he says
he is!
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“DO NOT PLAY
ANYMORE 60S
MUSIC... play some
David Guetta or
something.” Baraki
owner/manager
screams to me whilﬆ
a full danceﬂoor
is going oﬀ to The
Temptations. I
haven’t desired to
play there since or
been asked back...

Assange, editor in
chief, Wikil eaks
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
The guy in the US
who tweeted “coﬃn
getting lowered” etc
from a kid’s funeral!
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Psychedelic.
“There’s no way, with
hindsight, I would’ve
ever called up Larry
[Bird], called up
Magic [Johnson]
and said, ‘Hey, look,
let’s get together and
play on one team’.”
Michael Jordan when
asked about Lebron
James and Chris
Bosh joining Dwyane
Wade in Miami.

NFL game of the
year: Philadelphia
Eagles’ QB Michael
Vick’s all-time
record breaking
game v Washington
Redskins. LA Lakers
getting back to
back titles. Nas &
Damian Marley’s
collaboration.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
New Miami Heat
team success. Dr Dre
Detox bullshit.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR

SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
The US homeland
security
inveﬆ igations
shutting down
sites for copyright
infringement. Step
up and get with
the internet or get
ﬆepped on. For every
torrent/DL site shut
down, three more
will spring up.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Lakers for a threepeat, Oklahoma
makes play-oﬀs,
Miami doesn’t!

DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
The federal elect ion.
Labor. Intereﬆ rate
hikes.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Warm-up DJs
should have an idea of
how the headline DJ
sounds, and not resort
to showing oﬀ as it
kind of looks a bit
idiotic, and can totally
spoil the ﬂow and
energy of a potentially
great night.” Danny
Howells - You Heard
It Hear Firﬆ Blogspot
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Lots more good events
and a continued trend
of locals making
proper house and deep
house bombs whilﬆ
also making an impact
on the global scene...

Money – Drake
was never any good,
Weezy’s ﬁnished.
I’m ﬆ ill waiting on
a Nicki Minaj solo
though.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
The continued
success of local hip
hop artiﬆs was, as
always, my highlight
this year. The rise of
throwback releases
such as Nineteen
Ninety Now,
Marcberg and Live
From The Tape Deck
kept me intereﬆed
in a year that was
otherwise pretty dull
musically.

QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“You know if
you don’t like me
something might be
wrong with you. I juﬆ
looked in the mirror
and I’m cool man.” 50
Cent via Twitter.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Stephanie Rice’s
Twitter mishap. Not
because of what she
said but for the media’s
ridiculous backlash.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
I get another year
older and new music
gets even more
confusing to me.

The Onion
Grooveshark
AgencyNet
Interact ive
Monoface
HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
Duck Sauce - putting
the funk and soul
back into house
music while the
Swedish House Maﬁa
continue to churn out
the vocal happy ﬆ uﬀ.
And it’s good to see
some old favourites
return, including The
Chemical Brothers
and Faithless.
DJ Petchy/The Laﬆ
Supper - Live FM
Beats In Space - www.
beatsinspace.net
ONLINE
DESTINATIONS
I Love Music
Google - “x song” +
“mediaﬁ re.com”
Cocaine Blunts
Dissensus
Rinse FM

HIGHLIGHT(S)
OF THE YEAR
UK Funky was the
beﬆ thing ever for the
third year in a row.
DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
“UK Bass”/“Global
Bass”, Salem, in
general nerdy white
people half-heartedly
cribbing from crunk/
juke/kudoro/[insert
regional urban dance
ﬆ yle]. You all should
know better by now.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“I’m telling you that
this works. You know,
before we all ﬆarted

DON’T BELIEVE
THE HYPE
Anything from Art
vs Science. These
blokes couldn’t
produce vomit
let alone a decent
product ion.
QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“Refudiate. English
is a living language.
Shakespeare liked
to coin new words
too. Got to celebrate
it.” Sarah Palin, US
Republican party
and creator of word
“refudiate”, compares
herself to Bard.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Catherine Deveny’s
ill-judged attempt at
comedy with the “I
do hope that Bindi
Irwin gets laid”
Twitter rant which
led to her sacking.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Dubﬆep will be
remixed and trashed
and ultimately be a
short-lived fad.
having health care,
in the olden days, our
grandparents, they
would bring a chicken
to the doctor. They
would say, ‘I’ll paint
your house.’ I mean,
that’s the old days of
what people would do
to get health care with
your doctors. Doctors
are very sympathetic
people. I’m not backing
down from that
syﬆem.’’ Sue Lowden,
Nevada Republican
Senate candidate, on
Nevada NewsMakers,
April 2010.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Being asked this
queﬆ ion is an
indict ment on our
society.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
Everyone will
continue to slip below
my exacting ﬆandards
by falling for corny
indie versions of
dance music.

QUOTE OF THE
YEAR
“She’s a crazy psycho
fucking bitch.”
Diplo on MIA to
InTheMix.
SOCIAL MEDIA
FUCK-UP
Comedienne’
Catherine Deveny

tweeting unsavoury
comments about
Bindi Irwin in her
Logies commentary.
PREDICTION
FOR 2011
ZZT to release a
year-beﬆ beaﬆ of an
album.

BUSINESS MUSIC
Serious Underground Business With PAZ

L-VIS 1990

SOUNDCLOUD
No CSS or PHP
framework to meddle
with, doesn’t block
external links and
no social pinching
or ﬂogging. Straight
up music framework.
The beﬆ tag was
“bounce”, beﬆ club
tracks came from
Kooleﬆ of TSE
and his Jersey club
music. Soundcloud
was also great for
“Hollertronix” ﬆ yle
crossover tracks,
which helped with
the weekly “Bunsen
burner”. Biggeﬆ
disappointments
were the “Balearic”
tags, which kept
giving me proggy
trance inﬆead of
sieﬆa funk. Maybe
they need to sub tag
them “Balearic ‘88‘94” and “Balearic
- Pommy Backpacker
Trance”.
TRANCE
SYNTHS
The element that
made dubﬆep
intereﬆ ing were
trance soft synths.
The L-VIS 1990
“double ﬆep” drum
formula made its
way into the dubﬆep
formula. The Guetta
synth also crossed
its way into hip hop,

pop and Nova FM ads. Magnetic Man is
blowing up and it’s the uplifting (I cant beleive
that word is back again) trance synth that takes
dubﬆep away from the hoodies and gives it
back to the ladies. Nice one.
SOUND SYSTEMS
The Heartical HiFi sound syﬆem by Derek
Marr is a unique luxury in a city of “rock ‘n’
roll” bass. It looks so smart it should have
its own Flickr page. Colombian Picos were
another unique sound syﬆem, which were
partly documented at Afrocolombia web spot.
More recently Dutty Artz poﬆed a few modern
pico “clashes”. Beware of Google defaults when
searching for “Colombian Picos”.
THE CARIBBEAN
The Hold Yuh tune by Gyptian should have
blown up worldwide. That’s the track Major
Lazer will rip oﬀ in 2011. Those keys are like
cucumber on sunburn. It’s surprising Jamaica’s
Busy Signal was absent from said riddim. Busy
got busy on lots of obscure tracks including a
riddim titled Americano, which is the DCUP/
Yolanda track that blew up worldwide.
Someone cut it up and made a Caribbean
riddim out of it. That trend is prominent in
Soca crossovers recently. The ye’ olde Samim’s
Heater gets a rework from Swappi for Nah Go
Play. Easily the favorite 2010 Soca hype track.
Props to Spin D Music Soca mix Volume 11
which made Swappi a part of Oz Soca hiﬆory.
3D WORLD
Being from Melbourne, this used to be known
as a half-baked Sydney rag. Now it proudly
sits next to the ciﬆern alongside Grazia and
Wallpaper. Someday this publication will live
up to it’s title of World (and 3D) – until then
Business Music has made the eﬀort to think
Eaﬆern Seaboard, and less Chapel St, Prahran,
to gain more local info from the northern
neighbours.
What has a Zebra got to do with music press
anyway?

CLAMPDOWN!
Alt.indie.pop with DCR
And so here we
are: the laﬆ column
of 2010. The year
began with Vampire
Weekend and the
release of their
second album,
Contra, a textbook
summer record
that was quickly
overshadowed by
the lawsuit thrown
at the band, before
PVT’s Church With
No Magic welcomed
in autumn with all
the sexual ﬆerility of
German architect ure.
Then the year’s crown
jewel came mid-year
with The National’s
High Violet, an album
speaking of the ﬆate
of the world in 2010,
packaged as the
moﬆ sophiﬆ icated
pop record in years.
Sleigh Bells proved
that American youth
and noﬆalgia were
ﬆ ill highly desirable,
while Melbourne’s
Super Wild Horses
made an impact with
their awesome debut
album Fifteen.
On the live scene
Surfer Blood at
Manning Bar were
energetic, while The
Strokes were about
as grand a spectacle
as you can be when
you’ve no desire to go
ﬆadium. However
it was Muse, who’ve
well and truly
gone ﬆadium, that
provided the moﬆ
eye-exploding display
of the year, with
their ﬆage show at

times resembling Ridley Scott circa that Apple
Mac advert in 1984, at others Batman Forever.
The show even made their new songs sound
good! Locally, you should keep an eye out for
Creepers, an all-female band from Sydney with
some incredibly catchy lo-ﬁ grunge-pop.
A personal highlight of the year was The
Libertines reforming for Reading/Leeds in the
UK. Whilﬆ Clampdown! couldn’t make it to
the feﬆ ival – even though, in a momentary bout
of hyﬆeria, tickets were bought – we have spent
many hours watching the BBC recording of it,
which proved, of course, that it was the Beﬆ
Th ing Ever (Sorry Gorillaz). It was a beautiful
thing to see the four on ﬆage again, the songs
sounding as fresh as ever; it was only their
ﬆage language that showed that they’ve moved
on from the glory days (John Hassell looked
incredibly bored, whilﬆ Pete Doherty and Carl
Barât barely shared the mic).
Speaking of Barât, he released a solo album and
an autobiography this year, allowing fans to
delve deeper into his life; the book a revealing
and candid behind-the-scenes look at the life of
The Libertines from his point of view, while the
album explored Barât’s love of the Romantics in
greater depth.
Meanwhile Doherty is set to make his act ing
debut in a juﬆ-announced French ﬁ lm about
poet/dramatiﬆ Alfred de Musset. The Libertine
will play the 19th Century literary ﬁgure
opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichriﬆ )
and, intereﬆ ingly, her late father Serge’s exwife Jane Birkin. Th is juﬆ surpassed Richard
Ayoade’s debut ﬁ lm Submarine (ﬆarring Sally
Hawkins and Paddy Considine, and featuring
music by Alex Turner) as our moﬆ anticipated
release of 2011.
Vampire Weekend’s inﬂuence on 2009 was
huge – and at the beginning of 2010 it looked
like the beach-sound was going to take over
the airwaves everywhere, and to some degree
it did (see Surfer Blood, Wavves, Girls et al).
However the moﬆ signiﬁcant sound to emerge
– but by no means begin – this year was that
of drag and witch house. Bands such as Salem
and oOoOO were everywhere on the internet
a la Cryﬆal Caﬆ les in 2007 and dubﬆep in
2006, so we can expect it to crossover into the
mainﬆ ream in 2011.
Until then, Happy New Year.

PVT

50 3DWORLD

NAT

THE GET DOWN
Funky Shit with OBLIVEUS

‘BURN HIP HOP
Local Flow with STEVE DUCK
ALL OVER FOR
ANOTHER YEAR
In the laﬆ issue for
2010, we take a look
back on another
year in local hip
hop and realise how
blessed we are to
have such a huge
amount of talented
artiﬆs in the city we
call home. Not only
does Melbourne
enjoy a huge amount
of top-tier local
hip hop artiﬆs,
but the variety of
the music being
produced in this city
is ﬆaggering; from
Mantra to 360 to
our very own Bangs,
there’s something in
Melbourne for every
taﬆe. In 2011, make
sure you get out to
more shows and
continue supporting

THE PSYDE PROJECTS

Holy kicks loyal readers, has it been another
year already? Seems like I was juﬆ spinning
crap about 2009 and now I gotta’ think about
the next odd numbered year of tunes...
Much love to Lightspeed Recordings for
the regular sends to my email box… I love all
the slightly-oﬀ, elect ric disco y’all be doing,
so keep it up. Also, much love to those cool
cats in The Psyde Projects for dropping one
of the beﬆ Aussie hip hop albums of 2010.
Heartening it is to see someone keep ﬂying the
old skool hip hop vibe when all these young’uns
seem to think Rihanna or Jay Sean are the
originators of the genre. Their DJ, my man
Uri Moonshine, is on point and his edits juﬆ
keep getting better. Do yourself a favour and
peep him in the nightclubs, buy his wax and/or
check out the Woo-Ha Blogspot for the beﬆ in
edits of tracks you’ll need.
Another on the rise who I’ve been hyping
throughout the year are cool kids Planet
Jumper. A monthly residency down at e55, plus
countless gigs over at Revolver have seen this
two-piece gel into a force to be reckoned with
in 2011 and I’m positive a large pile of releases
will be forthcoming.
On the live tip, 2010 can be remembered for
the continued dominance of deep funk in
Melbourne Town. The Bamboos ripped apart
another pack of shows to sold out crowds
and their new album oﬀ Tru Thoughts, 4, is/
was one of the beﬆ Auﬆ ralian releases to
date. Deep Street Soul kept setting the bar
high and their own album through Freeﬆ yle
released late laﬆ year kept the hips gyrating

VIC

throughout 2010.
The Putbacks have
their Hope Street
Recordings label
oﬀ the ground with
some quality releases
and are playing some
dope live shows and
my new ﬁnd, The
Cact us Channel,
look to be making a
big splash in 2011.
Plus, local funk/soul
event outﬁt, Black
Caesar Product ions,
did some big things
in 2010 and have
some massive events
planned for 2011.
Whew! So there you
have it. I know my
year was ﬁ lled to the
rim every weekend
and next year is
looking to be even
larger. If you love
your funk/soul/edit
based music, then
this town has got it
going on… it’s juﬆ
up to you to keep
supporting it! Have
a great holidays and
I’ll see you on the
danceﬂoor.

MANTRA

local hip hop.
MORE SIXTY
And if you want some more 360 in your life,
I’ve got two things for you. Firﬆ of all, Sixty’s
Juﬆ Got Started single is available now on
iTunes. Cop that cop that cop that (Diddy
voice). Secondly, keep your eyes on YouTube
for the recent 360 vs Greeley (Tasmania) battle.
No info on the battle is available as yet, but
Sixty seems really psyched on this one so it
muﬆ be good.
AUDI 5000
I’ve been writing this column in Inpress and
now 3D World for around ﬁve years now, and
it’s ﬁnally time for me to acknowledge I’m too
old and behind the times to continue writing
for the mag and hand over the reins to someone
new. I wanna take this time to shout out all the
people out there grindin’ every week to try to
survive oﬀ music, sending me through gig info
and act ually saying thanks for the free promo.
In the paﬆ ﬁve years I’ve seen a lot of artiﬆs
come and go, but it’s safe to say Melbourne hip
hop is in the beﬆ position it’s ever been right
now. Let’s not forget all the hard work the
previous generations have put in to get us here.
I’m out. Peace.

BARE BASS

TRANCESPOTTING

Bass Culture with RICHIE MELDRUM

On Tour with NICK CONNELLAN

RAMADANMAN

That’s it folks, 2010 is almoﬆ at an end.
Musically, the laﬆ year of the ﬁ rﬆ decade of the
new millennium has been a good one. Some big
names including Kanye Weﬆ, Gorillaz, LCD
Soundsyﬆem and Mark Ronson all released
albums that are worthy of the Top Ten liﬆs
that they occupy. But that’s the dream in the
mainﬆ ream people – what about the sounds
from the underground?
Well, 2010 was the year that dubﬆep ﬁnally
went properly commercial with Skream, Benga
and Artwork’s Magnetic Man outﬁt breaking
into the UK singles chart with debut single I
Need Air. While some puriﬆs who’ve been there
from the ﬆart might not like the extent to which
dubﬆep has become something your mum
act ually knows the name of, it’s important to
always judge music on its quality rather than it’s
popularity, amen! Fans of Magnetic Man might
be in for a nice surprise towards the end of the
summer/beginning of autumn if the rumours of
an Auﬆralian feﬆival appearance are true.
It’s also been a good year for clubs in
Melbourne town as a ﬁﬆ ful of promoters
continue to show insight and ambition by
bringing some new and exciting debuts to our
fair city. Over the paﬆ year we’ve had Hessle
Audio’s Ramadanman, grime guy Silkie,
Deadboy, Addison Groove, Samiyam and
12th Planet from the USA, Kryptic Minds,

plus many more. So
congrats to all those
involved, including
the crowds on the
danceﬂoors, and long
may it continue.
Looking forward,
who are the artiﬆs,
producers and DJs
that we’ll be plugging
in 2011? Well, as
his fellow band
members kick back
and relax, Jamie xx
from Mercury Prize
winners The xx,
continues to deliver
a ﬆeady output of
quality remixes and
original product ions
of bassy UK sounds.
Watch out for the
beautiful tones of
Jamie Woon who has
got Burial onboard
as a producer for a
couple of his tracks
due for release in
early 2011...

Well, it’s been a
ﬆ range year for me.
I’ve dropped in and
out of the elect ronic
music world,
alternately moving
from hotspots
(Buenos Aires,
Ibiza) to complete
dead zones (Bolivia,
Ireland). However,
that lovely thing
called the Internet
has allowed me to
moﬆ ly keep up with
the ﬆate of play. A
year is a long time
to consider in one
sitting, but looking
back I can’t say much
has changed. I wrote
a column in ‘09
about the amount of
psy-trance producers
switching over to
techno, and it seems
largely that the
trend has continued.
Labels like Iboga
Records exemplify
this. Perusing their
lateﬆ tracks, the
basslines have all
but disappeared and
tempos have dropped
markedly.
Club trance has

continued to sound more like pop music, and
there’s nothing more to say. In an amazing
coincidence, I happened to catch Above &
Beyond at a very upmarket club in Bulgaria
a few months ago. I hadn’t seen them play
since 2008’s incredibly wet Global Gathering
in Melbourne, and I had high hopes. Along
with Ferry Corﬆen, I’ve always pegged the
trio as an act who didn’t have to compromise
their sound, who’ve always been able to please
both fanatic fans and the more casual liﬆeners.
Unfortunately, I was wrong - they ﬆank like
shit. Apart from the soppy music, central to
the performance was a giant screen operated
by Paavo, ﬂashing up messages like “hug the
person next to you” and “love is the answer”. If
that doesn’t tell you something’s wrong with
club trance, then you need your head checked.
So, in truth, the real ﬆars of this year
hav been the progressive labels. Panda
Recordings, Miﬆ iquemusic, Jetlag Digital
and Silk Digital Records, for example. While
Beatport’s monkeys might call the music house,
moﬆ ly it’s juﬆ slow trance. Now to put on my
gypsy hat and pull out my cryﬆal ball, I think
2011 will be a big year – a year for revival.
Some veterans who are fed up with the scene
will make an eﬀort to reﬆore it – think names
like Act iva and Airwave. Helping them will
be relative newcomers, such as Subtara, Kay-D
and Timewave. The subtlety will come back,
and people will once again ﬆart to realise that
every track doesn’t need to be a huge anthem.
In some ways, this has already happened.
Whether the message will ﬁ lter through to the
big boys of trance is another thing.

ABOVE & BEYOND

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AARON
TROTMAN
WHERE AND WHEN WAS YOUR
FIRST SET?
“Playpen 2006.”
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE ALL TIME
12”?
“I think it may have juﬆ become Lovebirds
– In The Shadows, such an amazing record.”
WHO ARE YOUR FAVOURITE DJS?
“Internationally: Joris Voorn, Luciano, Sven
Väth, Jamie Jones, Tensnake, David Keno,
Riva Starr. Locally: Luke MCD, Spacey
Space, Chardy, Nick Young, Tom Evans.”
FAVOURITE CLUB TO PLAY?
“Onesixone, Circus and Vineyard.”
WHAT’S YOUR BEST ALL TIME GIG?
“I’ve got some really good ones coming up
and can’t wait for Summadayze.”
WHAT’S THE FUNNIEST THING
YOU’VE SEEN FROM BEHIND THE
DECKS?
“It’s always good when someone has a
massive ﬆack.”
WHAT’S THE WORST REQUEST
YOU’VE GOT?
“Do you have any Greek or belly dancing
music?”
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK
OF WHAT YOU DO?
“They’re juﬆ happy I’m doing what I love.”
WHAT DOES THE LOCAL CLUB SCENE
NEED MOST?
“More variety in music. Punters don’t have
a reason to head out at the moment in my
opinion when there’s no new records getting
broken in clubs.”
WHAT GIGS HAVE YOU GOT
COMING UP?
“Summadayze, The Likes Of You at Eureka
Sky Deck Sunday 2 January, Onesixone
every Friday, Happy at Boutique every
Saturday, Mama Said at Circus Bar every
Sunday.”
PHOTO BY KANE HIBBERD

TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“Yeasayer – Odd Blood, Kanye Weﬆ – My
Beautiful Dark Twiﬆed Fantasy, The Drums –
Here Come The Drums. Mark Ronson – Record
Collection, Paris Wells – Various Small Fires.”
TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
Beyonce/Gaga – Telephone, Mark Ronson
– Bang Bang Bang, Gorillaz – DoncAmatic,
The Bedroom Philosopher – Northcote So
Hungover.”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“It’s been Rihanna’s year for me.There is
nothing this woman cannot do!”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“Echo and the Bunnymen at the Metro
Theatre in February.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“Aloe Blacc – one of the beﬆ soul voices I’ve
heard in a long time.”

M-PHAZES

TOP ALBUMS OF 2010?
“Janelle Monae – The Archandroid. The diversity
of this album was amazing, and she reminds me
of Lauren Hill vocally. It’s well written, well
produced and original with a bit of everything.”

RUBY ROSE

TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“Kanye Weﬆ– My Beautiful Dark Twiﬆed
Fantasy . The movie Runaway way to go with it
is breath taking.”
TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Rihanna and Eminem – Love The Way You
Lie. I even love Love The Way You Lie Part 2 on
Rihanna’s album”.”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“Jay-Z is up there, Florence and The Machine. I
think I have to give that to Eminem. He’s been
through a lot and is exceptionally talented.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“Katy Perry. A great live act with giant
inﬂatable cats. She popped out of a cake. Looks
great in latex.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“I’m intereﬆed to see the new Veronica’s album
after teaming up with the smashing pumpkins.
Zoe Badwi has an album coming up which
sounds awesome!”

MC 360

TOP GIG OF 2010?
“The Th ree Up Tour at The Hi Fi bar in
Melbourne.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“Hip hop from Auﬆ ralia to become the
biggeﬆ genre in Auﬆ ralia.”

TOP GIG OF 2010?
“DJ Premier at the Espy.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“Drapht will own 2011, Illy will follow closely
behind, Kanye will do a folk/polka/techno
record.”

TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“Kanye Weﬆ – My Beautiful Dark Twiﬆed
Fantasy. It’s probably my favourite Kanye
album yet.”
TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Kanye Weﬆ – Runaway. Tame impala –
Solitude Is Bliss. Drapht – Rapunzal.”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“Kanye Weﬆ. After 808’s & Heartbreak no
one would predict he would go to making
ﬆ raight up hip hop and he did it ﬂawlessly.”

TOP SINGLES OF 2010?
“Big Boi – Shutterbug. He ﬆepped up everything
on this song - lyrics, ﬂow, production.”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“Plan B. The guy blew me away out of nowhere.”

DJ JOYRIDE

TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“Drake – Thank Me Later. It’s a massive guilty
pleasure, but I’d say I know every word on this
release.”
TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Dr. Don-Don – King Of The Stars. I miss house
music heaps. Clean, sunny-day, soul-sampling,
smile-inducing house music.”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“You can’t go paﬆ Kanye for this one. He’s had
the entire world on the proverbial tip of his
penis for the second half of the year.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“Horrorshow at The Factory Theatre.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“Funky house revival, Jinja Safari will be huge,
Fred Durﬆ solo album.”

TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Pendulum – The Island Pt 1. Also hard to go
paﬆ Adrian Lux – Teenage Crime.”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“Steve Angello. With an ever growing liﬆ of
Beatport number 1’s this year alone, he’s proven
his label as one of the moﬆ sort after house acts
in the world.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“Future Music Feﬆ ival 2010: Main Stage
before Operator Please.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“I think you’ll see the Swedish House Maﬁa
continue their domination of the house music
scene.”

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DAN W
(ART VS SCIENCE)
YOKOO

TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“ Sleigh Bells – Treats.”

TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“Hatikvah – Synchronicity. The album is juﬆ an
amazing journey through the abyss.”

TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Grouplove – Colours. I’ve always been a
sucker for this sort of whimsical slacker
anthem.”

TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Nina Kraviz – I’m Gonna Get You. I have never
seen a dance ﬂoor lose there shit to a bass line
as they do when you drop this track!”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“Culoe De Song – Super young, up and
coming, consiﬆently producing top quality
deep emotional tunes.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“Bukanyr House Boat in Prague over the
European summer.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“The launch of our Reckless Republic Record
label. A European tour. Lots of time dedicated
to producing with my partner Kate Auﬆ in and
other product ion partners.”

ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“LCD Soundsyﬆem. This Is Happening was a
great album.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“The Strokes at Splendour In The Grass.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“Deﬁnitely Gypsy and the Cat. Expect to
hear about nothing but them.”

TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Drapht – Rapunzel.”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“Not to ride Kanye’s pole any further but he has
easily been the greateﬆ and moﬆ proliﬁc artiﬆ
of the year.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“Splendour in the Grass.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“J. Cole is going to change the rap game.
Joyride is going to change the sex music game.”

BABY GEE

TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“The Roots – How I Got Over You. The
Miniﬆ ry of Sound Chillout Session XIII.”
TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Swedish House Maﬁa – One. Also
Cinematic Orcheﬆ ra featuring Patrick
Watson – To Build A Home.”

ALEX JAMES

TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“Watergate 07 mixed by Lee Jones – I was
honoured to be able to write a track for the
infamous Berlin clubs exclusive mix series.”
TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Nufrequency feat. Ben Onono – Fallen Hero
(Motor City Drum ensemble remix).”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“Ricardo Villalobos – amazing remixes on DFA
records, Endless Flight, Desolat, Cadenza and
Cynosure.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“Ricardo Villalobos vs. Luciano at Stereosonic
Brisbane 2010.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“San Soda, Kez Ym, Little Fritter – big things
to come for all of them in 2011.”

DANNY CLAYTON,
CHANNEL [V],
THE RIFF
TOP ALBUM OF 2010?
“Jonsi – Go. Also Kanye Weﬆ – My Beautiful
Dark Twiﬆed Fantasy, Beﬆ Coaﬆ – Crazy For
You, Girltalk – All Day and Arcade Fire – The
Suburbs.”
TOP SINGLE OF 2010?
“Sleigh Bells – Inﬁnity Guitarsm, Art Vs
Science – Magic Fountain, The Radio Dept. –
Heaven’s On Fire.”
ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“ Lady Gaga. As this meat dress wearing, Santa
killing, disco ﬆ ick riding freak of nature, she
might not have changed the way the game is
played but she has deﬁnitely rewritten a few
rules.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“The Strokes at Splendour in the Grass,
Amphitheatre Stage.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“Juﬆ in Bieber will get pubes, his voice will
break and he will pimple up like a mofo.”

NAT

ARTIST OF THE YEAR?
“Armand Van Helden. He producers so many
ﬆ yles of music and consiﬆantly kills it with
every release.”
TOP GIG OF 2010?
“My closing set at Splendour this year.”
PREDICTION FOR 2011?
“I have a lot of music coming out next year so
hopefully 2011 will be successful for me!”

DJ STIFFY’S
TOP TEN BODY
PARTS OF 2010

LINDSAY LOHAN’S NOSE
The very notion of being dropped from a
ﬁ lm about a town bike with low self-eﬆeem
who does too many drugs for being a town
bike with low self-eﬆeem who does too
many drugs is itself worthy of a Hollywood
feature.
JOEL MONAGHAN’S DOG’S PENIS
Forget Auﬆ ralia qualifying for the World
Cup in 2006 or winning the America’s Cup.
Joel’s brief ﬆ int in the world of zoophilia
is now the deﬁning moment in Auﬆ ralian
sport, ﬁnally trumping Shane Warne’s twohookers-and-a-blow-up-doll escapade.
KEVIN RUDD’S GAPING ASSHOLE
Did I say asshole? Sorry, I meant mouth
– it’s really hard to tell because shit seems
to conﬆantly ﬆ ream out of both. Th is
two-assholed, shit-talking monﬆer may
no longer be PM, but as anyone who has
act ually battled two-assholed, shit-talking
monﬆers knows, he’ll be back.
KATY PERRY’S TITS
The only time I can otherwise remember
Sesame Street being censored was when “C
is for Cookie” got changed to “Cookies are
a Sometimes Food”, which was depressing
at beﬆ. Now apparently Katy Perry’s Ds are
going to ruin the lives of children around
the globe.
LADY GAGA’S SYNAPSES
Apparently covering yourself in meat can
be interpreted as a ﬆatement supporting
human rights with a focus upon those in the
lebian-gay-bi-trans community. I’m going
to remember that next time I’m at the sauna.
JULIAN ASSANGE’S HAIR
People have asked me what my beef is with
dear Julian, to which I generally respond:
“Bad hair. You never took a side-part
seriously at high school and you shouldn’t as
a grown-up.”
JULIA GILLARD’S THIGHS
It’s intereﬆ ing to watch people get highpower, high-ﬆ ress jobs and then see what
happens to them after way too many
breakfaﬆ buﬀets. Kevin Rudd totally
porked it on after about four weeks and
suﬀered sandwich withdrawals. Poor Julia

inﬆead is seeing
it go ﬆ raight to
the thighs. Mark
my words, no
pantsuits within
six months.
LIL WAYNE’S
UTERUS
Rebirth generally
represents
something kinda
profound, like
ﬁnding God,
surviving an
accident, etc.
However, it
shouldn’t apply to
half-arsed albums
that are basically
more of the same
shit, with the only
diﬀerence being
you got out of
prison.
KANYE
WEST’S
THUMB
The great thing
about Yeezy’s
Twitter account
is that, unlike
the exceptionally
inane messages
along the
lines of “I cry
because I love
Juﬆ in Bieber”,
Yeezy gives
us gems like:
“I speciﬁcally
ordered persian
rugs with cherub
imagery!!! What
do I have to do
to get a simple
persian rug with
cherub imagery
uuuuugh.” Deep.
BRENDAN
FEVOLA’S
SCROTUM
Fev’s scrotum
was, of course,
the unsung hero
of Fev’s career
in 2010, playing
second-ﬁddle and
key support to the
more high-proﬁ le
penis. People,
please give credit
where credit is
due.

TUBETIME

The incredible world of television with
5SPROCKET
And here we are at the end of another great
year, where so many things happened and we
all learned valuable life lessons along the way.
Ideally, this column would be a montage of
moments; grabs from 2010’s TV bliss, relayed
in slow motion to one of Josh Groban’s hits.
In this montage would be a narwhal ﬁghting a
unicorn and a large-breaﬆed woman wearing
limited garments ﬁghting dragons on the edge
of an erupting volcano. Fade in to a nine-yearold ﬆ ruggling to guess an answer on Pyramid,
with a celebrity act ing out the word “dinosaur”
and the child answering “triangle”. A grandma
being wheeled in to the Antiques Roadshow with
her family eagerly waiting to ﬁnd out her net
worth. MaﬆerChef ’s Matt Preﬆon smashing a
plate on the ground in proteﬆ, then licking up
the gourmet mess.
Star wipe to New Zealand’s ﬁneﬆ cops, a team
of super-average dogs wearing helmets, solving
crimes and having helicopter rides. Cross
fade to Larry The Lawnmower’s highpoint, a
lengthy R&B song for the kids about digging
a hole (told from the perspect ive of a shovel).
Remember All 4 Kidz, the show “made by kids,
for kids”, where they wonderfully mispronounce
words like “wocket” and make rockets out of
velcro and nitroglycerine. Be moved by that
sequence from World’s Stricteﬆ Parents where

a camp, emo teen is
being torn to shreds
by a black Baptiﬆ
family in the South
of the US.
Next, footage of
Daryl Somers picking
up the Hey Hey
phone, being told
that Kevin Rudd
was being ouﬆed
as Prime Miniﬆer,
then returning to the
action with a guy on
a pogo ﬆick breaking
his nose. Star wipe
to a close up of the
“incapacitating
verucas” and
“feﬆering arseholes”
on Embarrasing
Bodies, followed with
a glimpse of that
episode of Bondi
Vet where the good
doctor had the sea salt
licked out of his ear
by a party of aﬄuent
middle-aged women.
Music crescendos,
shots get faﬆer.
The potato addicted
teen on Eataholics.
The visionaries
of Daredevils: The
Flying Car ﬆranded
and ﬆarving in the
middle of the desert.
Richard Morecroft
ﬆabbing his hand
with a pencil out of
Letters And Numbersinduced agony. A
conteﬆant weeping
after failing to reﬆart
his career on The Boss
Is Coming to Dinner.
Recruits. The Joneses.
Some beauties.
Some geeks. It gets
so faﬆ the television
explodes. The smell
of burning hair.
And like a phoenix
it all ﬆarts to
reassemble, ready to
ﬆart this shit all over
again for a newer,
similar year.

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TECHNO
SCAPE

The big technology ﬆories of the year
arguably revolved around oil and
information – the ﬂow of it, the spilling of
it, and the abundance of hot air generated
by it.
The White House called BP’s Gulf of
Mexico spill in April 2010 the “worﬆ
environmental disaﬆer the US has
faced”, and it ended up being the “largeﬆ
accidental marine oil spill in the hiﬆory
of the petroleum induﬆ ry”. BP’s internal
documents were later to reﬂect the spill
was their own fault, and they only had
themselves to blame for their own PR moves
which included their CEO taking time out
to relax at a yacht race during a key time of
the repairs. Amongﬆ the many responses
to some of BP’s press gaﬀes, Twitter user
@BPGlobalPR provided the funnieﬆ and
often moﬆ biting commentaries.
Later in the year, in Cancun, Mexico,
we had some small progress towards our
increasingly necessary transition to a
low-carbon, resource-eﬃcient economy.
At the Cancun Climate Conference, a
funding model was approved that aimed
to provide $100 billion a year of funding
for developing countries by 2020 to help
them green their own economies as well as
adapt to the impacts of climate change. A
win of sorts. Next meeting? Durban, 2011.
Meanwhile: “A trimaran sailing boat has
circled the North Pole in a single summer
season (Oct, 2010), a feat made possible
by global warming and the melting of the
Arct ic ice cap.”
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE/
COMIC/TRAGIC
“Censorship has also been
privatised… litigious billionares and big
companies are able to eﬀect ively prevent
certain things appearing in public...” Julian
Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which was
refused service by PAYPAL, Maﬆercard
and Amazon’s hoﬆ ing late in 2010.
“The aim of WikiLeaks is to achieve juﬆ
reform around the world and do it through
the mechanism of transparency.” Julian

Assange
“Both the
American people
and nations
that censor the
Internet should
underﬆand that
our government
is committed
to helping
promote Internet
freedom.” Hillary
Clinton, now
part of White
House moves to
try and prosecute
WikiLeaks in
regards to leaked
US diplomatic
cables, some of
which suggeﬆ
Clinton ordered
espionage on UN
members.
“They could plug
into your wire
whenever they
wanted to. You
had to live – did
live, from habit
that became
inﬆ inct – in
the assumption
that every sound
you made was
overheard,
and except in
darkness, every
movement
scrutinized.”
George Orwell,
1984.
“Yeah so if you
ever need info
about anyone at
Harvard, juﬆ
ask. People juﬆ
submitted it.
I don’t know
why. They ‘truﬆ
me’. Dumb
fucks.” Mark
Zuckerberg,
during his
early years of
Facebook. He was
the 2010 Time
Magazine Person
Of The Year.
The Time readers
poll voted for
Assange...
@JEAN_POOLE

NAT

UNDERSIDE
SIDE
2010 GET OVER IT

If you’re reading this, that means you made it
through 2010 alive. Congratulations.
With global warming, the continuing Global
Financial Crisis and skyrocketing power bills,
this has been a crappy year and a lousy ﬆart to
the new decade.
Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen and Gary Coleman
are two and a half men who probably wish
2010 had never happened. Mel and Charlie
positioned themselves securely in the ﬁ le
marked “Completely Undateable”. Meanwhile
former sitcom ﬆar Gary Coleman collapsed in
his kitchen from some kind of brain tumour.
He died, despite his diﬆ raught wife rushing
him to the children’s hospital.
Auﬆ ralian television poured a bucket of crap on
our heads this year. Firﬆ ly, Channel 7 only saw
ﬁt to kill oﬀ one beloved character from their
appalling show Packed To The Rafters (surely a
suicide pact involving the entire caﬆ would’ve
been more entertaining). Then, juﬆ to kick us
while we were down, Channel 9 attempted to
reinvent Shane Warne as some kind of pithy
talk show hoﬆ. The result was witless, self
indulgent and utterly gruesome.
Box oﬃce receipts indicate that it’s ﬆatiﬆ ically
likely that you sat through the three hour, 3D
yawn feﬆ Avatar, director James Cameron’s
ﬁ rﬆ ﬁ lm since his three hour, 2D yawn feﬆ
Titanic. 2010 certainly didn’t learn how to
merge intereﬆ ing plot lines and actual act ing
to the 3pectacle either. Later in the year, Sex
And The City 2 took the once untouchable
franchise one ﬆep too far by changing the
“City” from Manhattan to Dubai and changing

the characters from
fun loving girls into
spoilt, leathery old
raciﬆs.
In US politics,
Barack Obama
learned that trying
to quit cigarettes is
physically impossible
while simultaneously
cleaning up the mess
left by the previous
guy. Closer to home,
Julia Gillard asked us
to judge her on how
she does the job, not
how she got the job.
That hasn’t helped
her popularity.
Maybe she should
ask us to judge her on
the fact that she isn’t
a smoker.
The good news is that
2010 is over now. The
bad news is that 2011
could be even worse
if we aren’t careful.
So let’s make sure
it really is a Happy
New Year. Or at leaﬆ
a happier year than
the write-oﬀ that was
2010.
DAVE JORY

THE
FINAL
QUITTING SMOKING

SIZE MATTERS?

Quitting implies not smoking anything, and nothing is very small.

PROS?

No foul breath, no stained teeth and fingers, no having to huddle outside a club in the freezing
cold for a cheeky mid-winter gasper... You need more?

CONS?

No more cigarette breaks means you’ll work at least an additional hour per day.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE?

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of
times.” Mark Twain.

COST?

Once you’ve kicked it you’ll theoretically have more money than you’ve ever dreamed of.

FROM?
www.quitnow.info.au.

GETTING FIT

SIZE MATTERS?

It definitely does – whether you want to end up bigger or smaller depends on where you start.

PROS?

If you get fit, people will start to think you look fit and from there anything is possible. There are
also all sorts of self-esteem benefits but they’re an added bonus really.

CONS?

You’ll become one of those people who talks about exercising who everyone hates.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE?

“It’s as satisfying to me as, uh, coming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and
coming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like, uh, getting the feeling of
coming in a gym, I’m getting the feeling of coming at home, I’m getting the feeling of coming
backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am
coming day and night.” Arnold Schwarzenegger.

COST?

Check your local gym – or do it for free at your local park.

FROM?
www.goodgymguide.com.au.

WRITING THAT NOVEL YOU’VE BEEN
TALKING ABOUT FOR YEARS

SIZE MATTERS?

50,000 words and beyond.

PROS?

Prose is its own pro.

CONS?

Will most likely rule out any chance of quitting smoking or getting fit in 2011.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE?

“Writing a novel is like making love, but it’s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain.
Sometimes it’s like making love while having a tooth pulled.” Dean Koontz.

COST?

Hours of your life you’ll most likely never get back.

FROM?

www.nanowrimo.org – but cramming it all into November isn’t recommended.

62 3DWORLD

EMPLOYMENT
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3D World - Melbourne Issue #1043

3D World has been serving the electronic dance music and hip hop community of Sydney and surrounding areas since 1989, recently racking up 1000 issues of quality local, national and international club and festival focused coverage. That’s a lot of epic hands-in-the-air breakdowns, but it’s all about the journey not the destination – in other words, as long as there are beats being dropped, 3D World will be hitting the streets every Tuesday to point you in the right direction as far as all things dance music and hip hop are concerned.